Morning Sky and Ice
January 26, 2015

Good morning from Vermont!  It was negative 4 when Doggie and I went out this morning.  A bit cold for sure!  I took the photo of the ice and morning sky from our front door this morning.  Doggie and I did not stay out long!


Yesterday Doggie played in the snow a bit and I got this photo while he was shaking the snow off.  He likes to hunt for mice under it and had almost his entire body under...

Doggie shaking the snow off...

When we were on our walk yesterday,  Doggie went on guard, saying the coyote were running the hills here.  He took me home right after that.  They have been a problem for a while,  and the bitches are in heat now.  They have denned up somewhere close,  a bit closer than I like.  They say if you hunt them,  they just repopulate faster,  and they do have a job to do in the woods so they can be beneficial.   Almost a love hate relationship between them and myself.  I have seen them quite a few times and the male is huge!  Our coyote are a cross of coyote and wolf and they call them eastern coyote.  The male here looks to be about 50 pounds,  half my body weight and larger than my dog.   They came to Vermont about 1940 and the population has grown since then.  Coyote eat rodents, plants, fruit, deer, snowshoe hare, cottontail rabbits, woodchucks, insects, and birds.  They eat deer helping to cull the weak from the deer yards in Winter,  and eat carcass they find of animals.  I am glad they are there to do the job!  We are over run with red squirrels at this time the pine cone crop this year was huge.  I hope they take care of some of those!  They tried to steal my cones off the porch I gathered for the seed to eat and plant...

Doggie on guard! 

The wind blows here a lot all year.  I got this fantastic photo of snow blowing in the field yesterday too!   Sometimes it is hard to judge just how much clothing I need out there.  You can walk around a corner here and the wind will just about blow you away as it comes through the gap and hits the fields below.   I love watching that snow blow!

Snow blowing in the field

Hope everyone has a wonderful day! Love to all and please always be kind.

Hello from Warren, Vermont!  My name is Patty Sue Cooper and I work in the woods and fields in this area taking photos and videos of nature.  I also harvest wild foods and medicine.  I have the help of my Carolina Dog Doggie Beowulf Cooper when out working here.  He is always at my side to help and assure my safety.  We have been a team now for a little over three and one half years.  We make a good team.  He also travels with me when we work out od state and is trained to help with mobility and also as a PTSD service dog.   I write a lot on Facebook and am registered DBA as Patty Sue's Cherokee Trail Of Tears Beans and More with the State of Vermont.  This is a new business for me, I always wanted to farm but not on a large scale.   I like primitive living and this Spring am doing an agricultural experiment to grow Wampum Corn, Cherokee Beans, and pumpkin ( I have not picked the seed for that yet) the old way which was done before the Europeans landed on Turtle Island ( America).   Sunflowers too!  Cannot forget the sunflowers!  

I like to grow plants.  I like it so much that I took over part of the kitchen on the farm I am living on now and grow under lights there.  I transplanted Siberian Tomatoes today for the third and final time into grow bags there and they will start flowering soon.  I was hoping for fried green tomatoes by Valentines day but maybe by March!  I have cucumbers growing also and they are going to bloom any day now.  I grow microgreens and cactus which you can either eat the pads or the fruit.  I have a fig tree, banana tree, and citrus too...   I have dreams one day of green houses built over pits so I can grow the figs on a larger scale and other food and trout too all year.   I have guppies now,  and all their water when changed feeds the plants.  I grow in organic soil.  I believe that food is our medicine and just as a car does not run on bad gas,  a being does not run on bad food.   I do like white sugar in my sweet tea though...  I just have not given it up yet.  working on it.

Inside the banana leaf while it is uncurling.
 Photo taken in the kitchen January 24, 2015

That is about all for now,  I plan on posting about what we do here.  We do not live a very normal life haha.  A bit of adventure,  some great photos,  some video,  some tall tales and some that are not so tall,  I am a short little woman about 100 pounds so I like short tales... ha!  Have a great day,  please always be kind!

                                           Thanks for visiting! I love you all! 

Venus  Photo taken in Warren, VT by Patty Sue Cooper and Doggie
January 24, 2015